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authorised officer of the local authority to a place where it will be sterilised
or destroyed. Previous regulations allowed of arrangements by which
retailers of pets could buy unfit meat from slaughterhouses, etc. ; should
such meat merely have been stained, they were required to sterilise it
before sale. Under the new Regulations, it should no longer be possible for
retailers of pets meat to obtain meat from slaughterhouses or from
overseas unless it has been sterilised. If, however, any such meat should
come into their possession, they are required to sterilise it before sale.
They will have to ensure that raw knackers' meat is stained at the time
of sale.
(C) OTHER FOODS
Food Premises
There were at the end of the year in the district 222 grocer's shops,
138 green-grocers' and fruiterer's, 133 butchers', fifty-two fish shops,
thirty-two dairies and 152 confectioners/cafes.
Food Condemned
During the year 4,870 lbs. of food were found to be unfit and had to
be destroyed. Fresh meat and offals accounted for 3,025 lbs. ; fresh
fish 150 lbs. ; canned fruit 485 lbs. ; canned fish twenty-four lbs. ; canned
meats 973 lbs. ; canned vegetables 141 lbs. ; and canned groceries
seventy-two lbs.
Thirty-nine large packets and thirty-five small packets of frozen foods,
408 fluid ozs. of fruit juice and thirty-seven pints of milk and cream
were also condemned.
Complaints
Thirty-nine complaints were received about foreign matter in foodstuffs.
Of these seventeen related to bread ; six to cakes and confectionery;
ten to meat pies ; five to tinned or packeted foods and one to sausages.
Ice Cream
At the end of the year 417 premises were registered for the retailing
of ice cream, an increase of six on the number at the end of 1959. Of these
only two manufacture ice cream. Seventy-three samples were taken, ten
being of loose ice cream from the manufacturers in the district, sixtythree
from retailers of prepacked or loose ice cream. Grades 1 and 2 are
considered satisfactory ; grades 3 and 4 are not, and if repeated indicate
laults in manufacture. Of the ten samples from local manufacturers, two
were grade 4 and therefore not satisfactory. Of the remaining sixty-three,
our samples of loose and one prepacked ice cream were in grade 3, and
seven loose were in grade 4, leaving the remaining fifty-one in grades I
and2. In those cases classified as grades 3 and 4 suggestions as to better
sterilisation of equipment and other improvements were adopted ; later
samples were found to be satisfactory.
All twenty-three samples of lollies examined were satisfactory.